I spent a lot of time in the 90's looking at qualitative analysis of software source code and tools that look at quantitive factors and attempt to quantify risk based on things like Source Lines of Code (SLOC) and Function Points (FP).
Continuing in the vane of Quality Management in Software Development (see previous article), I'd like to bring your attention to a source code analysis tool.
This article walks you through setting up Eclipse CDT and Xdebug together.
Enterprise grade PHP is becoming more and more prominant. Moving beyond the Web-Dev crowd PHP has gained its rightful place beside Active Server Pages, PERL and Java Server Pages. As PHP applications moved beyond simple server-side scriptingand into the enterprise, automated software testing will be become more important, especially for successful implementations of Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum.